This is the page for my epic fantasy series: The Brightest Shadow. The first trilogy is now complete at nearly a million words in total.
Prequel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V7GSQ64
Audiobooks: https://geni.us/TheBrightestShadow
In the future I'll include more resources on this page, but for now it will contain my old introduction. More worldbuilding can be found in posts at a separate blog, to keep everything organized.
INTRODUCTION
TBS is my attempt to write an epic fantasy series with all the trappings of the genre: multiple characters, massive scope, complex themes, and so on. I've been planning this for the last decade, merging my loves for wuxia and western fantasy. Below is a simple introduction.
But none of them are the Hero. It doesn't matter how many shades of gray might exist, some people see only in black and white. And the terrifying truth is that the stories they tell might not be just legends."
(The Chorhan Expanse, the setting of the first novel.)
"The arrival of the Hero was worse than anyone could have imagined.
To take her place as a full warrior of her tribe, Tani must travel across the vast grasslands of the Chorhan Expanse. But she has her sights set higher than a mere ritual journey: she wants to uncover a solution to the impending war that threatens her people. Her world has never been peaceful, torn between the many cultures that meet on the Chorhan Expanse, but the greatest threat is an expansionist army of monstrous non-humans who call themselves the mansthein.
Legends tell of monsters who will attempt to conquer the world, but are the mansthein those monsters? Tani believes that peace may be possible, but there are others on both sides who believe in the legends with zealous devotion. All around her, warriors have their eyes on a glorious victory with no concern for the piles of bodies they'll create on the way.
Tani will be joined by a killer pretending to be a healer, a mansthein commander struggling with his orders, a thief who pawned her heart of gold, and a strategist exiled from a foreign land.
But none of them are the Hero. It doesn't matter how many shades of gray might exist, some people see only in black and white. And the terrifying truth is that the stories they tell might not be just legends."
(early cast pictures)
I also barely touched on the world itself and the cultures within it, because I didn't want to throw a bunch of random proper nouns at people. I've been putting thought into all the different cultures for years, though, and can't wait to introduce people to them.
(a preview of future cultural posts)
More worldbuilding can be found in posts at a separate blog, to keep everything organized.
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